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skilledjackal.bsky.social
Soli rhymes with Julie #BLM #LandBack
@skilledjackal.bsky.social
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Queer polytheist disabled librarian. Doing ma'at. Re-enchanting. Magical year-round. May be NSFW. She/They.
I'm awesome, what more is there?

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Soli rhymes with Julie #BLM #LandBack @skilledjackal.bsky.social · Jan 9
also, if you're following me, and know me, but I might not recognize your handle, leave a comment with how we are connected.

I don't auto follow back.
skilledjackal.bsky.social
I said goodbye to Daenerys, my Good Mew, on Thursday. She was 16, and I gave her the best life. She was my good girl and glued to my hip cat. She is probably cuddled up with her brother again in the Unseen.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
skilledjackal.bsky.social
Temptation is running high to make a website for myself and have an email list so I can keep people in the loop of my life. Like these places were meant to.
Dark red and purple dahlias in a glass vase on my kitchen table.
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
like there are a million things you can do here is a list

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/
THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST
keep all your shenanigans in one place
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Da Share Zone’s Just Walk Out meme
July 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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morgandaimler.bsky.social
have an article in this free ezine, talking about fairies and gender

thepagancollective.com/2025/07/03/m...
MoonScape Issue 5
MoonScape issue 5
thepagancollective.com
July 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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phoenixcalida.bsky.social
I don't think a lot of people in politics over the age of 40 understand that young people aren't scared of words like socialism or communism.

They're watching every bad propaganda thing they've ever heard about socialism play out in real life under capitalism. And the socialists have health care.
July 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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phoenixcalida.bsky.social
Secret police dragging people away ✔️
Economic despair ✔️
Inability to afford basic necessities ✔️
Corrupt government run by a handful of wealthy elites ✔️
Erosion of art, culture and social life ✔️
Constantly growing authoritarianism ✔️
Being forced into a specific morality/ideology ✔️
July 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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wagatwe.com
OH 👀
tiktok search bar with "ice haitians brooklyn brawl" as first autocomplete suggestion
July 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
skilledjackal.bsky.social
Black market trading endangered species.
enragedodin.bsky.social Matthew @enragedodin.bsky.social · Jan 15
Confess your crimes to me
July 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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maggiemcneill.bsky.social
THIS. Cassandra is exhausted after yelling about this for a generation.
fleerultra.bsky.social Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Feb 11
the constitutional crisis is actually 25 years going, but most people shrugged their shoulders and kept moving because it was happening very slowly. we are now in the final constitutional collapse phase, which is moving orders of magnitude faster.
July 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
People are going to die here, not from alligators but from exposure and mosquito-borne illnesses. I know that they don’t care but we still still should.
tomaskenn.bsky.social Thomas Kennedy @tomaskenn.bsky.social · Jul 1
This is what detainment for immigrants looks like in the Everglades, in the middle of the hot Florida summer, during hurricane season. This is depraved.
July 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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marzhang.bsky.social
Procedure as tool of tyranny. 😭
elienyc.bsky.social ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · Jun 27
The main upshot of today's birthright citizenship ruling (that I'm still making way through) seems to be that each person victimized by an unconstitutional Trump order has to pretty much sue individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.
June 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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normative.bsky.social
If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Jun 24
Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of "changes in the FTC and other government leadership." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Now a leading LGBTQ+ rights organization says it, too, harbors fresh concerns about KOSA. After initially opposing KOSA, GLAAD changed its stance to neutral last year after lawmakers revised the bill in response to concerns from it and other rights groups. That seemed to have cleared the political path for Democratic lawmakers in particular to support it. Asked for comment on Monday, however, a spokesperson for GLAAD said the organization has changed its view again in light of “changes in FTC and other government leadership.” “When reviewing KOSA, lawmakers must now take recent, harmful and unprecedented actions from the FTC and other federal agencies against LGBTQ people and other historically marginalized groups into consideration,” said the spokesperson, who asked not to be named because they have received personal threats from anti-LGBTQ+ advocates.
June 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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fightingpride93.bsky.social
Trans lives are more important than Harry Potter.
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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huxleymorgan.bsky.social
Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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luxalptraum.com
Independent of whether it is “good” or “bad,” this feels like a milestone in The Onion’s shift from “comedy newspaper” to “political platform that does comedy.”
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Jun 22
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
June 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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niankhsekhmet.bsky.social
www.charkoosta.com/news/no-one-...
'No One Is Illegal on Stolen Lands': Native Voices Stand Firm at No Kings Protest
As more than 6,000 people gathered in downtown Missoula Saturday to protest authoritarianism, Native voices stood grounded in truth: "No one is illegal on stolen lands."
www.charkoosta.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
NEW: There have been 4 bomb threats targeting public libraries in the last week.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
One Week, Four Library Bomb Threats
Bomb threats at libraries have become a far too common occurrence. In the summer of 2023–two years into an unrelenting attack on public librarians, as well...
buttondown.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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davidcorn.bsky.social
Oligarchy, baby.
June 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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thornthewitch.bsky.social
If you read one of my books and liked it, please tell your friends! Honestly, that’s still the best marketing many authors can hope for. If you like a book, share it with the people in your life! Everyone wins!
June 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
Frances Thompson remains constantly on my mind www.nybooks.com/online/2022/...
The draft of the Supreme Court's majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson leaked on the anniversary of the Memphis Massacre, a turning point on the way to what looked like freedom. Over the first three days of May in 1866, white residents of Memphis brutalized, murdered, and sexually assaulted the city's Black residents. Seven men entered the home of Frances Thompson, two of them police-"I know they were policemen by their stars," Thompson later explained. They drew their pistols, threatening to shoot her and burn down the house if she and her friend "did not let them have their way with us." Several weeks later, Thompson, a formerly enslaved woman, and four other Black women who had been sexually assaulted testified before the select Congressional committee investigating the massacre. Their testimony built support for the Fourteenth Amendment, which asserts the constitutional right to equal protection under the law.
June 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
The enemies of Reconstruction were trying to kill the Fourteenth Amendment (and destroy one of the women whose story was used to argue for its necessity) when the Fourteenth was barely ten years old. www.nybooks.com/online/2022/...
Ten years after the Memphis Massacre, Frances Thompson was arrested and charged with "cross-dressing" as a woman. Police forced her to undergo a physical examination and, as the historian Susan Stryker recounted in a recent lecture, dressed her in male attire and posed her for illustrations which ran in newspapers across the country. The press recast her as a liar and her testimony as a dangerous fiction, wielded in service of Reconstruction, which was already disintegrating around her. After Thompson was outed, the historian Hannah Rosen writes in her book Terror in the Heart of Freedom (2009), the press used the gender "impersonation" charges to assert that Thompson and other Black women who testified about sexual violence "were not virtuous enough to be believed when they testified in a legal forum," or "to be trusted with the rights of citizenship."
June 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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cait.bsky.social
fuck the New York Times and everyone who works or writes for them and please let me emphasize yes, I mean everyone
nicanstett.bsky.social Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · Jun 18
The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.
June 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
Today is a real bad day for trans folks. Lots of us are already struggling under the constant mental and emotional strain of being the target of international hate campaigns for years now, and it ain't getting easier

Support us, now more than ever. Emotionally, financially, politically. We need it
June 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM